We’re pleased to announce our last event of the winter quarter, slated for next week. Please join us in welcoming Akira Mizuta Lippit, who will present on “Shadowline” on Tuesday, March 12, 5-7pm PT. The event will take place in McMurtry 370, where refreshments will be served. Below you will find the abstract and bio attached, as well as a poster for lightweight circulation. We look forward to seeing you there!
Zoom link for those unable to join in-person: tinyurl.com/bdf4ed4f
Abstract:
This paper looks at the unique visuality of an eclipse, a penumbra in which a dark object is revealed in and sometimes by the darkness that surrounds. When darkness envelops darkness, is vision negated or does a new form visibility emerge from the double negation of the visible? At its early stages of thought, this paper seeks to explore the cosmic event of an eclipse as a uniquely disruptive but revelatory instance of a collapsing visuality.
Bio:
Akira Mizuta Lippit is University Professor of film and literature at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Cinema without Reflection: Jaques Derrida’s Echopoiesis and Narcissism Adrift (2016); Ex-Cinema: From a Theory of Experimental Film and Video (2012); Atomic Light (Shadow Optics) (2005); and Electric Animal: Toward a Rhetoric of Wildlife (2000).
This event is generously co-sponsored by the Stanford Department of Art & Art History.